The Fighting Fisherman; The Life of Yvon Durelle

Original red trade paperback with black and white photo of the subject on the cover, and white lettering. Tiny stains on front free endpaper. Minor corner wear. Bottom corner of last page turned. This is the story of a man from a small New Brunswick fishing village who made it big in the professional boxing world! Appendix of records from 1947 to 1963. 282 pp.

From Publisher:

Yvon Durelle fought from the tiny Acadian hamlet of Baie Ste. Anne to within a heartbeat of being light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
Durelle emerges in this book as a man of contradictions. His lifelong nickname was Doux--gentle--but he mastered a spectacularly brutal profession. Accounts of his fighting career reveal a man of incredible toughness and audacity: in 1952 he fought Olympic gold medalist Floyd Patterson with a broken hand. His life outside the ring was equally audacious: in 1977 he was charged with shooting and killing a man outside a Miramichi drinking club. This biography follows Durelle's painful progress through both worlds.
The Fighting Fisherman is a remarkably frank portrait of a complex man and a punishing sport.

This edition replaces the Goodread edition of this title, ISBN 0-8878-0114-5.

Product Info

ISBN: 0887806562

ISBN-13: 9780887806568

Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited

Year: 2005

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

Seller Info

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Country: Canada